#Israel kills #AlJazeera #journalists in #Gaza
A prominent Al Jazeera #journalist, who had previously been threatened by Israel, was killed along with 4 colleagues in an Israeli airstrike on Sunday in an attack condemned by journalists & rights groups.
Israel's military said it targeted & killed #AnasAlSharif, alleging he had headed a Hamas militant cell & was involved in rocket attacks on Israel.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-says-it-killed-al-jazeera-journalist-2025-08-10/
#AlJazeera, which is funded by the #Qatar govt, rejected the assertion, & before his death, Al Sharif had also rejected such claims by #Israel.
"#AnasAlSharif & his colleagues were among the last remaining voices in #Gaza conveying the tragic reality to the world," Al Jazeera said.
#AnasAlSharif, 28, was among a group of four #AlJazeera #journalists & an assistant who died in an airstrike on a tent near Al Shifa Hospital in eastern #Gaza City, Gaza officials and Al Jazeera said. An official at the hospital said two other people were killed in the strike.
A sixth journalist, Mohammad Al-Khaldi, a local freelance reporter, was also killed in the strike, medics at Al Shifa Hospital said on Monday.
Calling #AnasAlSharif "one of Gaza's bravest journalists," #AlJazeera said the attack was a "desperate attempt to silence voices in anticipation of the occupation of #Gaza."
The other #journalists killed were Mohammed Qreiqeh, Ibrahim Zaher & Mohammed Noufal, Al Jazeera said.
"The deliberate targeting of journalists by #Israel in the Gaza Strip reveals how these #crimes are beyond imagination," #Qatar Prime Minister, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani, said on X.
The #UN #HumanRights office condemned the killing of the #journalists, saying the actions by #Israel's military represented a "grave breach of international humanitarian law" as #Palestinians reported the heaviest bombardments in weeks.
Its post on social media platform X was accompanied by a photograph of flattened blue tents next to a bullet-ridden wall in #Gaza City.
British PM #KeirStarmer is "gravely concerned" about the repeated targeting of journalists in Gaza, his spox said.
The Israeli military said in a statement that #AnasAlSharif headed a #Hamas cell & "was responsible for advancing rocket attacks against Israeli civilians & IDF (Israeli) troops," citing intelligence & documents found in #Gaza as evidence. It has not made these public.
#Israel denies deliberately targeting #journalists. It claims many of those killed in Israeli airstrikes were members of Islamist militant groups, working under the guise of the #press.
#AnasAlSharif was previously part of a #Reuters team which in 2024 won a #PulitzerPrize in the category of Breaking News Photography for coverage of the #Israel #Hamas #war.
The war between Israel & Hamas in #Gaza is the deadliest on record for #journalists, according to the Watson Institute for International & Public Affairs' Costs of War project.
…The Committee to Protect Journalists said at least 186 journalists have been killed in the Gaza conflict.
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